The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs (Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, psychologist and philosopher, Nazi concentration camp survivor).

Comment: This is what you usually say.

My Response: This is already completely ours.

Question: It is ours. But he was not a Kabbalist. How did he come to this?

Answer: One does not have to be a Kabbalist for this. One just has to be a person who searches for the essence of life, and then he sees that the essence of life is to reveal the essence of life to other people.

Question: When does a person reach this? Usually, a person lives to find the meaning of his own life.

Answer: The search for one’s own life brings a person to the point where he sees that he can realize it only through the meaning of life of others by giving them the meaning of life.
[349016]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/7/25

Related Material:
Know The Secret Of Life
Striving To Reveal The Meaning Of Life
Being Infected By “The Meaning Of Life” Virus

Filed under: Meaning Of Life, News - No Comments →

The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love (Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust).

What is meant here is love, the understanding of the essence of nature, which lies in such a unification of all people when they do not feel what separates them. This emerging feeling of commonality, of being in one desire, this is the attainment of the goal of life.

This one desire, the unification of everyone into one desire is what love is.
[348944]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/8/25

Related Material:
How Do Kabbalists Define Love?
About the Value of Love for Friends
Love Is A Two Way Street

Filed under: Meaning Of Life, News - No Comments →

Question: Why is fear given to a person?

Answer: So that he will correct something—his attitude toward life and death.

Question: What should it transform into? If it is given from above, what should this fear flow into?

Answer: It should flow into absolute submission to the will of the almighty, the Creator, and in understanding that he still has something to do in those moments, and there may still be a great many of them until he truly completes his earthly path.

Question: So in principle, a person must do something one way or another? What must he do?

Answer: He must calm down. What else is there to do? Nothing else.

Comment: I do not even know what to add here.

My Response: There is no need to add anything. That is what a person must do. Is he really planning to do something in this world? How will the world continue without him? What will he leave behind for the world?

Question: That phrase: “calm down.” Once you said that the Creator is at rest, and a person must come to the same rest.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Then can you give us a definition of rest?

Answer: Rest is when the next moment does not bother you. Absolutely does not trouble you! You have no worries; not that you live in it. If you live in it, then it does not trouble you because you live in it. But simply, It does not bother you. That is what you need to reach.

Question: Then am I living in this moment? Or you do not want that to be pronounced?

Answer: This moment does not exist either. You should not think that you exist at all.

Question: So I just float along a river, and that is what I do?

Answer: That is also an attitude toward life and not a good one. “Raise the oars” and “float along”—that is not good either.

Question: This point is not very clear to me.

My Response: It is not clear to anyone. This is precisely the point where we attain absolute rest.

Another way to put it is that I rely on the Creator’s governance. He governs everything, including me, every moment of my existence, and in fact the entire universe and everyone in it. So I have nothing to worry about. Do I want to interfere in His correction, in His governance, in His control over all this? No.

If not, then sit quietly and go on with your life.

It is that there will be no difference between your existence now and after you decide in what way you should exist.

Question: Is that the point of rest?

Answer: Yes, it speaks of agreement. It speaks of the fact that you agree with the Creator. And this is not simple. After all, we always want to grab Him by the hand, check what He is planning, and argue that perhaps it should be done a little differently.

Question: And here we do not need to grab anyone? Just like that, and that is all?

Answer: Let it go.
[348612]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/26/25

Related Material:
Relax and Understand One Important Thing
Do Not Contradict the Creator
When Will Fear Disappear?

Filed under: News, Q&A, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Comment: The culture of Japan is very different from the cultures of other nations. The land of the rising sun is considered a repository of secrets, spiritual health, and a happy life.

Please comment on some Japanese wisdom.

The first one: “Having thought, make up your mind, having made up your mind, don’t think.”

My Response: Yes, it is good. As a rule, if a person decides, then this is an act that comes out of the innermost part of his desires. Therefore, if you have already decided, implement it. Otherwise, it will be a regression.

Comment: “Water takes the form of a vessel into which it was poured. And a person gets good or evil from his friends.”

My Response: Yes, a human is a vessel. If he bows himself before society, friends, and comrades, then they fill him up. It takes its own form, but the content is theirs. And thus, it can move forward.

Question: Is this how a person can find himself by standing up to others? But he thinks otherwise.…

Answer: No! In fact, he preserves himself because he is nothing more than a vessel. And the filling from a good society will move him forward.

Comment: “It’s easier to find 10,000 soldiers than one general.”

My Response: It really is. Our world is full of soldiers who rejoice in obedience, because, as they say, “The less you know, the better you sleep”; life is easier. And being a general, of course, is difficult, and there are few of them. There are very few outstanding people in nature and in society.

Question: When they talk about a general, do they mean responsibility and care?

Answer: Of course! This is a serious leader. And besides, he is responsible not only for himself. A real general is responsible not only for the soldiers, but also for the people behind the soldiers, whom the soldiers are called upon to protect. So it is not easy to be a general. These are not today’s generals.

Comment: “When an ear ripens, it bends its head; a man gets richer, it lifts his head.”

My Response: Yes. It really is. If the head is heavy in worries, then of course the person bows his head and bends himself. He understands that he is just a small executor of someone’s will in this world. And if the head becomes “empty,” then it lifts higher, the nose lifts the head.

Question: So when a person gets rich, he pays attention to wealth, and everything is an empty head?

Answer: Yes. It is the opposite of kindness, the opposite of wisdom. Wealth contradicts wisdom. It does not happen at the same time as wisdom. Sometimes, at the end of life, people suddenly start to doubt: “Why do I need wealth? I’ll give it away…” But that is not it. What you have ruined in your life by striving for wealth all the time and existing for it is beyond repair.

Question: So there is no such thing as rich and wise?

Answer: No, these are special states that perhaps only a few people in the world had, when wealth did not limit or darken their wisdom. For example, King Solomon, etc. These are characters that we have very little idea about.

This is only when a person could substitute both wealth and wisdom for the Creator.

Comment: “To lend money to a friend is to lose him.”

My Response: Yes, that is, you should be connected with a friend only by friendly ties, and in no case by material ones.

Comment: You seem to be doing a good thing.…

My Response: There is no good thing. So, from this moment onward, you are no longer friends. No way. Because there are other types of communication between you.

Comment: That is, it is better to send him to the bank, let him take it there or somewhere else.…

My Response: It doesn’t matter how. Refuse by any means. So that you are not financially bound by any obligations, no dependencies, no way! Do not hire him, otherwise he is no longer a friend. Do not lend him money, of course. Even family ties, whatever they may be, literally and immediately spoil friendly relations between you.

Comment: Let’s say friends create a company, do their own business…

My Response: This is a very difficult case. This is possible only if they are really above the nature of our world.

Comment: “The neighbor’s flowers are redder.”

My Response: Naturally. Envy is a great force in our world, and it leads us forward. Envy, jealousy. Therefore, I would strongly advise you to develop it. Look at others and be jealous. And so, you will sort of steal ideas, desires, intentions, goals from them, and you will develop.

Comment: The world says the opposite: “The envious one!”

My Response: It depends on what to envy. To be jealous in order for me to develop, so that I become intelligent, understanding, developing. We always set our children as an example for others.: “Look at this boy,” and so on. Of course, absolutely.

Envy is a wonderful feeling if it is managed properly.

Question: But are you talking about white envy, when, being jealous, I develop myself?

Answer: Yes. White envy is what puts me on the right path and develops me.
[245660]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/3/25

Related Material:
Japanese Wisdom, Part 1
Only A Sage Can Recognize A Sage
The Wisdom of Omar Khayyam

Filed under: Children, Education, News - No Comments →

Question: A person is faced with a choice of what to choose? If you were facing a choice, what would you identify as the most important thing and then follow through with this decision?

Answer: How I can detach from myself and only then make the correct choice. Only then will my choice be correct.

Question: So that my “I” would not command me?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How can it be done? It is a difficult question.

Answer: Detach yourself

Question: Meaning, I should not listen to my inner voice too much?

Answer: No, you cannot rely on anything here.

Question: What about examples? Let’s say other people tell me: “Look, I went there. I am already a scientist and I have a PhD. I am already a Nobel Prize winner. You should take this path.” And another person says: “I am already a businessman.” There are a multitude of various noises around me. Should I not listen to these people around me? You see, it is not an easy question, but it is there.

Answer: Then it is better not to choose anything. You rely on God’s will, as we say. You are not doing anything; you are just sitting, and that is all. As it is said: “Sit and do nothing, better.” What is next, God will give.

Question: Can I rely on Him?

Answer: You have to work; you have to do everything that is required. However, such important, crucial decisions are always difficult for a person.

I used to get questions from people about choosing a profession, college, or other things. I usually did not give advice. A person should figure out for himself where his soul or hand is pulling him.

Question: Still, I would like to follow your experience and ask about you personally. What do you choose when you have a choice? How do you make decisions?

Answer: I always decide for the maximum benefit of society because I know for sure that this is what the Creator wants.

I do not know whether I made a mistake or not. In general, we do not know whether we make mistakes or not.

Question: In general, we probably do make mistakes?

Answer: It does not matter. You do not know what would be in the other scenario. And so I imagine where would be the maximum benefit for the Creator. What would the Creator want me to do? And in general, that is for the benefit of society, for the people.

Comment: Perhaps there is something in this. When I make a decision according to what is best for me, then I will for sure make a mistake. However, if I am for society, then that is probably the answer.

Answer: You see, you have decided.
[348526]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/24/25

Related Material:
The Golden Rule of Decision-Making
Toss a Coin or Think?
All Our Decisions Stem From The Ultimate Goal

Filed under: Free Will, News - No Comments →

I built a “wall” inside myself that shuts myself off from the world, from everyone. I live inside myself peacefully, alone. No one suspects that I live like this.

Comment: That’s interesting! You have hundreds of thousands of students and you say this is how you live.

My Response: That doesn’t matter.

Comment: Then share the secret.

My Response: The secret is very simple. I build this world within myself and therefore even if I am in contradiction with the world imposed on me, that contradiction does not oppress me or fight me. I simply set it aside and continue.

Question: Can you at least tell a little about what you have there in that world?

Answer: In that world I am a king. And I serve the great Creator. That is all. Everything is very simple.

Question: It is easy to say, but it is not so simple. Yet one really wants to be in such a world. Is there advice on how to get into it, into that world?

Answer: Squeeze through.

Question: How?

Answer: You must build it. A person must build it within himself. And when he builds it, he discovers that yes, it is possible, it must be done, and it will be eternal.

Question: Is it both security and peace?

Answer: It covers absolutely everything! It is the kingdom of the great king.

Question: “The great king,” but is the king Him?

Answer: Yes, and you build it for Him.

Question: You build it for Him? And then you end up in it? So that He rules there?

Answer: So that I will rule everything for Him.
[348418]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/19/25

Related Material:
What Does It Mean To Serve The Creator?
Man’s Purpose Is To Serve The Creator
Living In Harmony With The Creator

Filed under: News, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Comment: All this propaganda and gaslighting penetrates every nook and cranny. It is the psychological manipulation of a person that makes him doubt the correctness of his own thoughts and leads to a loss of confidence and dependence on the manipulator.

My Response: This gaslighting wants to explain to a person that they are being controlled. In general. And a person should feel that he controls himself. And then there is a single combat between a person and someone who encroaches on his independence.

Question: Is this really an attack?

Answer: Yes! What else! This is enslavement. Well, what can you do? Such is the world.

Comment: Basically we see that almost 90 percent or more are subject to enslavement.

My Response: And they want it!

Question: So a person should resist this, simply not want it to the death?

Answer: He should not do that! He just needs to understand that he can be subjected to such an attack, and that he will no longer have freewill after that. And to avoid this, he must build himself up.

Question: Let’s talk about this a little. What kind of core is this in a person that he must build in himself?

Answer: To do to yourself what others want to do with you. That is, others want to impose their point of view, worldview, and attitude to the world on you, and you build it all yourself!

Question: So he is ahead of them and building himself up?

Answer: Yes. Moreover, he is so much ahead of them that he can fight them. He can put a wall between himself and them. That is what we need to understand.

Question: What does it consist of? What exactly is this wall made of?

Answer: This wall consists of confidence in my own method of building the world in me the way I want it to be. And everything.

Question: Which wall can withstand it? What kind of world should I build to make it stand?

Answer: It is as materialistic as possible, which will resist any attempts to crack this inner world of a person.

Question: Is this possible only for strong people, or is almost everyone capable of it?

Answer: No, I do not think everyone is capable of it. But in principle, this can be taught, and people can be pulled out of dependence, out of such a semi-underground, slave state.

Comment: You and I can see that the world is under it today.

My Response: Today, absolutely everyone is in a state where they are being controlled: thoughts, pictures, points of view, and so on, are being imposed. Humanity generally goes, of course… Crawls back into the caves.

Comment: Then still, if you say so, there is a possibility to build a wall.… And I will tell you something else; there is a very interesting observation. There are millions of views on the Internet about those who have gone somewhere, to some kind of hermitage. Someone went to the taiga and has been living there for 20 years, 30 years. One. One person leaves, and that is it, he leaves people. And people are watching and writing comments: “I wish I could.”

My Response: Yes, but it is not easy.

Comment: It is not easy. But this wall was built by some. And you are offering in an active world…

My Response: Absolutely active, without changing anything, only inside yourself.

Question: And yet, you do not say what it might be? Is that what it is? How to do it? Give me some practical advice.

Answer: I don’t know. I have built such a wall in me. It is as if I have fenced myself off from the world, from everyone. I live inside myself quietly, alone. No one suspects that I live like this.

Comment: It is interesting! Tens, hundreds of thousands of students, and you say, “This is how I live.”

My Response: That does not matter.

Comment: So, share the secret.

My Response: The secret is very simple. I build this world within myself, and therefore, even if I am in conflict with the world that is being imposed on me, this contradiction does not oppress me, does not fight with me. I just dismiss it and continue.

Question: Can you tell us at least a little bit about what it is like there, in that world?

Answer: In that world, I am the king. And I serve the great Creator. That is all. Everything is very simple.

Question: It is easy to say, but it is not easy. But I really want to go to such a world. Do you have any advice on how to get into it, into this world?

Answer: To crawl through.

Question: How?

Answer: It needs to be built. A person must build it in himself. And when he builds it, he discovers that, yes it can be done, it must be done, and it will be forever.

Question: Is it both safety and peace?

Answer: It absolutely covers everything! This is the kingdom of the great king.

Question: The great king. But is He the king?

Answer: Yes, but you are building for Him.

Question: Are you building this for Him? And then you find yourself in it? For Him to rule there?

Answer: For me to rule everything for Him.
[348336]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/17/25

Related Material:
Lie And Truth, Part 5
Fake News
The World Where You Are the King

Filed under: Free Will, News - No Comments →

My doubts are so great that I do not know where to put a foot down! There is no where I can place my foot in this life; I do not know where to step. This is a wonderful state! This is when you have only one thing to do—a possibility to turn to the Creator and feel that you depend only on Him!

That is all. This is the most reliable and the most correct.

Question: Are you saying that we can only rely on Him and no one else?

Answer: Of course. If He gives us such states that we feel that there is no one else besides Him, this is great salvation.

Comment: It would be nice to come to this state. Then the solution about apartments, sneakers, cars, whom to follow…

My Response: Let these questions constantly arise, any questions, but I would only find answers if I aspire to the Creator. Then everything is solved along the way.

Comment: But this is not easy!

My Response: Otherwise we cannot do anything. These constant doubts are all necessary for us in this life. Everything comes from the Creator, in my egoism it turns into doubts, into indecisiveness, into questions.

I send all of these back to Him together with my egoism. I cling to Him. In this state, I am awaiting the solution, and not simply a solution, I await the action so the Creator Himself would do it and carry it out. It is like you take a baby, put him in front of you, and move his legs, teach him how to walk. This is the way.

Question: This is beautiful! What you said I can relate it to any question at the lowest everyday level?

Answer: At any level.

Question: Up to the highest one?

Answer: Definitely

Question: And then will I hear the answer? If I tune myself, will I hear the answer?

Answer: Since the Creator is perfection that includes everything, for Him, in the creation there is no a small, insignificant, or a big event. They are all equal.

Question: Are you saying that small steps of this little person, a child, they all lead to daddy, to father? He wants us to walk there gradually, with little steps?

Answer: Obviously. You just have to feel that He is placing your feet and directing you to Him precisely with the help of these questions, failures, states of uncertainty, and so forth.
[348110]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/10/25

Related Material:
The Dead-End, the Creator, and the Meaning of Life
Why the Creator Did Not Teach Us to Swim in the Ocean of Life
Why Does the Creator Not Caution Against Mistakes?

Filed under: News, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

A secret lies in a special combination of sounds that influences the heart. One must think about that in such a way that first the heart responds, and only afterward the ear hears. This is the most important thing, and no one really knows it.

Question: So it goes from the heart to the ear and then to everything else from the heart?

Answer: Yes, with any instrument, not only a musical instrument, sound must pass not into the ear, but into the heart, and only afterward, through the ear, it comes out.

Question: It come out of the ear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Today you are turning everything upside down! So I do not hear with my ears?

Answer: No, with the heart.

Question: Does a word possess this quality, as you are now saying, like a sound?

Answer: Of course. A word is expressed precisely in this way.

Question: So one must find such a word that penetrates the heart, and only afterward it is heard?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are there such words at all?

Answer: There are.

Question: How in our science can one find such words? After all, we study such a science that is not curiosity, not knowledge. So how can we find such words that penetrate the heart and then…?

Answer: It is very simple. I asked my teacher, RABASH, about this. He said: “Well, haven’t you heard what is said in the prayer Shema? Shema, Michael.” I was surprised, but why “Michael”?

Comment: This is the prayer Shema Israel.

My Response: Yes. Because “Israel” is a general name.

Question: But in truth: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes, you can substitute any name there.

Question: Is this the address to the heart: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it already begins to take shape. Is the Shema prayer considered one of the highest prayers?

Answer: Of course. Yes.

Question: Have we now reached the point that prayer is first heard precisely by the heart?

Answer: Yes, and only afterward by the ear—or heard at all.

Comment: You always insist that the prayer of a person, a simple person, is higher than the prayers composed by the sages, the Kabbalists. You always say this, and it surprises me somewhat, and people write that the prayer a person says, just the way he says it when he prays, is higher than those prayers.

My Response: Yes, because this is what he feels. An inner resonance of his heart with the upper word takes place. Therefore, this is the highest address to the Creator.

Question: So do you mean that when a person pronounces like that, with feeling, he hears it first from above?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it not born within him?

Answer: No, of course not.
[348365]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/25

Related Material:
The Heart that Pumps Life
The Main Prayer Of Israel
Prayer of the Heart

Filed under: News, Perception, Prayer and Intention - No Comments →

Question: Here in Israel, and in fact all over the world, Jews celebrate the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah). Apples and honey are associated with the new year, sweetening life by dipping the apples in honey; does this have some deep spiritual meaning?

Answer: The spiritual meaning lies only in person’s spirit. There are no spiritual roots in the apple and honey, just like with the head of a fish.

Comment: But they say that you should start with the head and not the tail.

My Response: This is because it is the new year, the “head” of the year. That is why it starts this way. But in principle, what if you take not a fish but a head of an ox? That could be even better. The year might turn out to be even more successful.

Question: What is the spiritual meaning of the phrase “start with the head”?

Answer: You need to start with the head. That is, what do you want to live this year for, what should it give you, what should you rise to, what should you demand from yourself? All of this is contained in the head.

Question: And what is the answer to these questions: what to rise to and what to demand from yourself?

Answer: Only to get closer to the Creator. Nothing else is needed. That is the only firm directive for us. And that is why we are called Israel, Yashar El, straight to the Creator.

Question: So in principle, the new year is constant thoughts and movements exclusively toward the Creator?

Answer: It is not just constant thoughts and movements only on the new year. You are laying the foundation for the whole year.

Question: So you are laying the groundwork for the whole year? And if you lay it well and correctly, will the year roll smoothly? Will it go well?

Answer: No! That does not mean anything yet.

Question: Does it not say anything?

Answer: No, it would be nice just to pay off on the new year for the whole year!

Question: So it will not work? Do you need to work constantly?

Answer: Yes, this will not slip through.

Question: Then it turns out that every day could be a new year? Because every day you renew your thoughts about the Creator.

Answer: That is also true. So this date is purely symbolic. There is really nothing in the state of the Earth around the Sun and us on the Earth as such.

Question: What are your wishes to all people in this new year?

Answer: My wishes this new year?

Comment: You see how things are going on in the world this year. What kind of a year we have had.

My Response: And it is still unknown what the new year will be like. We are facing such questions, truly frightening ones.

I think that we simply need to wish humanity to be wiser. To understand what force actually governs us. Why do such negative forces and threats arise in our world? And how we can, even with their help, turn ourselves in the right direction, toward the right goal, and achieve unity, and in that unity discover the eternal, great meaning.
[348452]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/21/25

Related Material:
Why Do We Eat The Head Of Fish On Rosh Hashanah?
Spiritual Holidays, Part 2
Sweet Apples From The Tree Of Knowledge

Filed under: Holidays, News - No Comments →